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John Major personally apologised to Bill Clinton after the Home Office checked immigration files to see if the newly elected US president had applied for UK citizenship while at Oxford University in order to escape the Vietnam war draft.
The transatlantic relationship also came under strain over the issue of granting Gerry Adams a visa to visit Washington before the IRA had declared a ceasefire, files released at the National Archives show.
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